Daniel Berkeley Updike Designer (2 results)

Daniel Berkeley Updike designed this elegant trade edition of the Rubaiyat. Illustrated with twelve photo-etchings from drawings by Gilbert James and Edmund H. Garrett and with portrait of Edward Fitzgerald. Light binding wear, spine faded, gilt edge scuffed, front hinge cracked. Occasional spotting to text but generally clean. Very Good Publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Designed by Daniel Berkeley Updike at the Merrymount Press. (illustrator).…

First edition of Updike's first book. Tall octavo. 154, [1, colophon], [1] pp. Complete with both fold-out charts. Publisher's half black morocco over marbled boards (expertly rebacked to style), gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers. Minor foxing to first three and last three leaves (mainly blanks). Armorial bookplate. An untrimmed and very handsome copy of this scarce title. According the RBH, the last copy to appear at auction was in 1940.The first book designed by Mr. Updike, printed under his supervision at the Riverside Press. ?Before he began work on his own account, Updike had made one book, and only one, in which he had had entirely his own way. It is a simple volume, with little that is distinctive or decorative about it, except that there is nothing wrong; the proportions of page and margins, title, size of types and composition, tone of paper and quality of press work offer nothing for obvious criticism. The book is ?An Inquiry into the Naming of Churches in the United States,? compiled by two laymen of the Diocese of Rhode Island, that is, Mr. Updike and his closest friend, Harold Brown of Newport. . . .?---G. P. Winship, The Merrymount Press of Boston.…